JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.
A wild boar has been committing ravages among the sheep in the Waipara district. Several men havo been out after him. but no rifle has yet brought down the cause of a fair amount of loss on some of the stations. The sheep havo simply been killed and left.
A peculiar disease has mado fte appearance in some of the Cambridge vegetable gardens. It attacks the potatoes, tho first sign being a blackening of tho haulms just above ground, the leaves, however, appearing bright and healthy. In a few days tho haulms havo rotted right through, and give off an offensive odour. In one patch of Early Puritan potatoes inspected a day or two ago, there wero about ono in every dozen roots destroyed through this cause, and it app ar< to be a worthy—or unworthy— rival to tho familiar Irish blight.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14835, 28 November 1913, Page 4
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145JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14835, 28 November 1913, Page 4
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